Just out from Friends of Kansas Libraries (FoKL)!
This edition is chock full of information about the Friends of the Library groups who have received challenge grants and who have been selected for awards.
Check out their successes!
http://www.fokl.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Fokl-Pt-Spring-2013.pdf
Congratulations to Pioneer Memorial Library for their $500 Challenge Grant Award!
It’s not too early to invite Wyatt Townley, the new Poet Laureate of Kansas, to do a public program at your library. These programs are available to your library free-of-charge, while funding lasts.
Instructions on how to book an event with Wyatt here: http://kansashumanities.org/programs/poet-laureate-of-kansas/
If you have any questions, contact Leslie Von Holten at the Kansas Humanities Council: leslie@kansashumanities.org or 785-357-0359
On our home page you will find (Photo of the day) on the right side. Check back daily to see whose Library is (Photo of the day).
For School Librarians under For Librarians Menu there is a PDF of the Kansas Humanities Council Talk Book Collection in Alphabetical order.
Under the For Librarians Menu there is a new link (Social Media Connections) check out all the available links.
As part of the revamping of Red Rocks, the home of the Wm. Allen White family, an orientation video was created by Kansas State Historical Society to be shown to visitors prior to the tour. It is brief, well-organized, and should suit even younger children, so I inquired about its availability for use in schools/libraries. I am pleased to let the library world know that Jennie Chinn, KSHS director, has made this video available through the Red Rocks website: http://www.kshs.org/p/red-rocks-orientation-video/18286
She commented that, in the interest of brevity, the legacy of WAW, including the children’s book awards program, is not pursued. I think you’ll find this video will provide a brief overview of White’s family up to the current generation and, as president of the community partnership board which works with KSHS to oversee the house, hope it will stimulate many visitors to Red Rocks this spring and summer! Be sure to take a look at the main site: http://www.kshs.org/red_rocks
There will be a dinner theatre at Red Rocks beginning later this month as well as programs on the porch each Sunday in June.
Beverley Olson Buller
Newton, KS
www.beverleybooks.com
To All VERSO SaaS Customers
All production system will be updated to the latest release of the VERSO software. Release notes for this update can be viewed under Staff Menu – AGent News. The update will start after 7PM PT, 9PM CT, and 10PM ET, during the update process the system will be down for approximately 2 hours while the new software is being installed.
The 11 Large 6 by 6: Ready to Read Kits are under construction…
All Large 6 by 6 Kits contain at least one activity from the 6 key skill areas of early literacy. Print Motivation: Have Fun with Books, Print Awareness: Notice Print All Around You, Vocabulary: Talk, Talk, Talk to your children even when they don’t understand what you’re saying, Narrative Skills: Tell Stories About Everything, Letter Knowledge: Look for Letters Everywhere and Phonological Awareness: Take Time to Rhyme, sing and play word games.
Large Kits Available Now for Checkout:
Alphabet Under Construction Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type Put It On The List Little Cloud The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Large Kits Coming Soon:
Seven Blind Mice Tip, Tip, Dig, Dig Blue Sea Mushrooms in the Rain Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom Snowballs
The State Library of Kansas will be ending our contract with WebJunction on June 30, 2013. If you are currently enrolled in a course or have a specific course on your to-do list, please make plans to be completed by the end of June.
Software tutorials (Microsoft Office Suite, etc.) are still available within LearningExpress through the Explore our Resources page at http://www.kslib.info/eor.html. This is open to all Kansans, not just library staff. In the coming months we will host a number of walkthroughs of this product as a new layout will be unveiled shortly. The archive link to these events will be posted to our website. Upcoming training offerings and past archive links can be found at http://www.kslib.info/calendar/training.html
We are currently in the process of gathering continuing education self-paced opportunities (courses and webinars) which are library specific and also of more general interest to librarians. Look for messages from the State Library in the months ahead as we highlight these offerings.
Thank you,
State Library of Kansas
785-296-2146
RECIPE CARDS are available for your patrons or library staff to print out and use with young children and their families birth- 6 years of age. You can find the Recipe Cards under the Children’s Services link on our home page or on the new Kansas State 6 by 6 website. 
